The MoH perspective was included because the MoH is the relevant payer in Uganda since the country has a national health service that, in theory, should provide health care to all citizens.
We calculated average DRG weight within each payer across all discharges whose primary payer was the relevant payer category.
Thus, our analysis was performed from the perspective of a health care insurance company as the relevant payer.
This debate may, however, become less relevant for payers, including U.S. payers who may have little incentive to use FGAs following patent expiry of SGAs, such as risperidone and their availability in generic form and lower cost.
These costs are often omitted from economic evaluations because they are difficult to quantify and might appear less immediately relevant to payers and providers [ 9].
Given the rising cost of oncology care, the survival benefit and incremental cost associated with Tx2 for elderly mCC patients are particularly relevant to payers, such as Medicare.
Comparative effectiveness evaluations also require the assessment of end points relevant to payers (such as resource utilization and cost) or to patients (such as quality of life, productivity, and the need for follow-up care) that generally are not considered by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDAas as part of the marketing approval process.
For the BSC strategy it was assumed that the health state costs for 'Blind' and 'Visual Impaired', determined on the basis of published literature, already include all relevant healthcare payer costs.
The purpose of the current study was to perform a cost-effectiveness analysis of pregabalin for the treatment of CLBP-NeP using data specific and relevant to Japanese payers and the health care system.
Although studies have reached different conclusions regarding the cost-effectiveness of 1 or more SGAs versus FGAs [ 17, 49, 57], the debate about the relative benefits of FGAs versus SGAs has become less relevant for U.S. payers, who may have little incentive to use FGAs following patent expiry of risperidone and its availability in generic form and lower cost.
